are girls allowed to dye their hair?

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From what I heard the dye would be a chatzitzah when she goes to the mikvah

I don’t really know the halachos but my friend who is married wanted to dye her hair ombre brown to blonde and she wasn’t allowed cause it would be a chatzitzah. But her mom got a heter to dye her grey hair brown because it’s her natural color. So I think you have to ask your local rabbi cause two different rabbis gave different psaks

I didn’t say that

Zd

Why can’t a lady allowed to dye not be allowed any color and not only certain colors?

It is an explicit halacha in Shulchan Aruch that women’s hair dye is not a chatzitza. YD 198:17.

yitaynignwut: That may be (I can’t look it up right now) but one should still ask a sheilah and not make assumptions. We don’t necessarily posken by the Shulchan Aruch (especially Ashkenazim), and I am pretty sure that someone I know had to take the dye out of her hair before going to the Mikvah.

There are alot of ways to take out die…wikihow has a couple of ways

There should be no reason a “Girl” can’t dye her hair as she doesn’t go to the Mikvah. A married women who must go to the mikvah may have a problem if it prevents the water from getting to the hair. It should be noted that some of these dyes may cause CANCER.

Technically, a single girl with grey hair doesn’t have to dye her hair, but that would be a really bad idea, imho.

i’m sorry but I need to chime in here. The two people most strongly speaking out against being insulting to others seem to be forgetting to turn the mirror in their own direction.

I had a streak of grey hair from early in my childhood and nobody gave a hoot. Come time to go out and the shadchanim were all over it. I never felt so ugly and degraded. They presented it as “ugly”, “a turn off”, “makes a bad impresion” etc. You know what?! That was MY choice. If they want me to put on a false front then they have their priorities all messed up. And I know some of you have your opinions about that, we’ve already discussed it, but those comments from you both are very cutting and judgemental. And if GD FORBID the person is grey because she is an older single than I believe you have some serious agmos nefesh on your hands.

Thank you for listening.

and i forget to mention the stupidest part of all is that NOBODY EVEN SEES YOUR HAIR!!

The over the counter hair coloring treatments are certainly not permanent.

Syag Lchochma, I am really sorry if I made you feel bad. I totally did not mean to make anyone feel bad, and I had no idea that anyone would.

Here’s where I was coming from: As an older single with grey hair, I felt that RebYidd23 and Abba_S were being judgmental of me for dyeing my hair and of Sparkly for considering dying her hair. I dye my hair because I think that it is the right thing to do, because I don’t like the way my hair looks when it’s gray and it looks much much nicer when I dye it to its natural color. I think that Sparkly is right for wanting to dye her hair and that no one should be scaring her by telling her that it causes cancer. If it’s important to her to look pretty (as it should be), she should not worry about getting cancer, and neither should I. You can’t live your life like that!

That was my only point, and I hope you are not offended.

I did not understand your last sentence: ” And if GD FORBID the person is grey because she is an older single than I believe you have some serious agmos nefesh on your hands.”

Which person are you referring to? The only people I was referring to were myself and Sparkly.

thanks golfer for the undeserved compliments!

I know we discussed that issue before, at this time I was really pointing more to the idea that it is not appropriate to make such comments about greying hair any more than about being fat. If you don’t like your grey, then dye it. But don’t call it ugly and give the impression a person might be making the wrong choice if they don’t dye it because that isn’t fair. Some people may not care, some people may have made peace with it and it isn’t necessary to catagorize it as a negative without giving a thought to all the people it may apply to.

I didn’t feel insulted, the rest of my hair was grey long ago and I honestly forgot I even had a grey streak til it came up here a couple times. It isn’t about me, tho. It’s about being sensitive even about things that you don’t think are a problem. Anytime you are going to comment negatively about an appearance, realize there are many others out there who may be swept into the same catagory. If it is universally bad, than fine. But sometimes it isn’t.

Sparkly – who said that you are an older single?? And who said anything about someone not getting married because they have white hair?

And being an older single is not the worst thing in the world by the way!

Many bald or balding frum men grow their hair long and comb it over the bald area to attempt to hide their baldness.

Does anyone know if there is a heter for them to wear a comb-over as they are trying to appear younger?

cherrybim, is that any different than wearing youthful looking clothing or shaving (either to avoid a graying beard or to achieve a youthful look without any beard)?

The dying is assur because of beged isha. How would the other things mentioned be beged isha?

According to poskim, making yourself look younger comes under beged isha.

I never said females can’t dye their hair, however there maybe some health problems involved. You should consult your doctor before using hair dyes, as premature graying maybe a symptom of a disease. Also hair dyes have tar and many of the same carcinogens as tobacco the only different is that not as much is absorbed through the scalp if it is washed off quickly, as is absorbed by inhaling so the doctor’s insight maybe helpful.

I just think that people should know that hair dyes are toxic and are not as healthy as food dye. I am in no way trying to scare anyone. You should know the risks involved before using these dyes.

Also tornadoes. Tornadoes are bad. I think pretty much everyone would agree.